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With one week to go until Evan and Paige's big day, the Hamptons are a winter wonderland (albeit a snowless one) and wedding preparations are in full swing. But before they can say their vows, the lovebirds have to celebrate something else: their last officially single days.
Best man Hank has a tame night in NYC planned for the groom's bachelor party, while DIvya and the bride are set to meet Paige's friends in Aspen for Paige's bachelorette party. But bad weather and the interference of Hank's former nemesis Ken "Killer" Keller mean that both the ladies and the gentlemen are in for a change of plans, and, surprisingly, both parties soon find themselves unknowingly headed to the same place: Las Vegas.
In Sin City, the boys hit the tables while Paige plays cupid and reconnects still-crazy-for-each-other Divya and Rafa, who take their relationship to a new level with an impulsive visit to the wedding chapel. Not long after the groups reunite, it's time to head back to the Hamptons (and reality), where Hank attends to his cousin Owen and Ken's girlfriend Barbie when they each undergo frightening medical crises. And unfortunately, they aren't the only ones with troubling symptoms: months after the explosion at Shadow Pond that appears to have killed Boris, Hank is still not fully recovered, and his condition is worsening.
Meanwhile, the upcoming nuptials and the arrival of both Owen and Hank's former flame Winnie bring back memories of less happy times, before the Hamptons healed the Lawson brothers and their fractured relationship. As Evan broods over a wrong he may have done Owen years before and Hank assesses his romantic failures, storm clouds move in. With the blizzard closing roads and preventing guests and vendors from making it to the Hamptons, the white wedding of Paige and Evan's dreams is in danger of becoming a snow-covered nightmare.


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Thirteen point seven billion years, cosmologists now feel, is the time it took for our universe to get its act together and produce the primordial ooze from which intelligent beings eventually emerged. Our universe had needs and wants which were met and allowed to develop and prosper. It had the sun in the morning and the moon at night and creme-filled Twinkies and schools and hospitals and Monday night football. Some descendents of these intelligent beings are known to have survived to this day in West Tisbury.
The intelligent beings inherited their ancestors' affinity for needs and wants. What was not inherited, however, is a suitable tax base to fulfill their wishes. Human needs and wants have changed in recent years. Citizens are demanding acquisition of more of these comforts and satisfying those demands has become more difficult and costly.
Pity poor West Tisbury. It has needs, wants and aspirations but does not have a stable renewable source of funds. It can't keep taxing the same fat cats forever. Innovative alternatives must be developed.
In bright, sunny New England towns, motorists are often drawn to the bright red and gold colors of the autumn leaves. This is no longer a seasonal activity since the stretched blankets of fire department volunteers having a blanket drive have supplanted the autumn leaves. Stretched blankets are held by the side of the road into which passing motorists toss their donations. Of course, the Vineyard is more upscale, so spinnakers from 12-meter yachts would be used at the runway approaches to Martha's Vineyard Airport. Weighted envelopes for this purpose will be provided by the airlines imprinted with their logos and ads (for a small fee, payable to the town coffers).
West Tisbury has long been an agricultural area and that heritage can be put to good use. It is all the rage now to consider ethanol conversion for automobiles and to plant vast areas of corn in place of existing crops to provide the raw materials. The Vineyard is not Iowa; it is a compact Island better suited for compact crops like winter squash and black-eyed peas. They are unfortunately not crops that have high financial return per acre. The ideal choice would be the hardy, easy-to-grow cannabis plant. It has been said that a market already exists in major urban centers and reportedly a number of highly skilled specialist farmers are already on the Island. Of course, the product would not be sold locally at Cronig's or the farmers' market but would be only for export. A few years ago in Bogota, Colombia, there were meatless days so more of their high quality beef could be sold abroad. Not only was their national debt reduced, but their cholesterol level as well.
The diversity of the Vineyard, both physically and in its population is its most valuable resource. There are white sandy beaches, thick tick-infested undergrowth, ponds and sandplains. Its inhabitants are found in every size shape and color, from Thumbelina to the giants in Wagner's Das Reingold, from little old lady white to the darkest of black, from the Slim-fast skinny to the hippo-like. Among their professions are singers, dancers, actors, theatrical agents, lawyers, composers, lyricists, audio experts, advertising and publicists. Its ethnic diversity runs the gamut from Native Americans almost to Zulus. The tales these people have to tell contain romance, hardship, celebrations, pathos and unrequited love — in short, all the stuff musical comedies are made of. Its book and lyrics could out-poignant South Pacific and West Side Story. It would almost be guaranteed a long and prosperous Broadway run after out-of-town tryouts at Gosnold and Noman's Land.
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Dallas, TX: As hundreds of animal lovers held a candlelight vigil for the severely burned puppy now known as Justice, the man reportedly responsible for setting him on fire, 18-year-old Darius Ewing, turned himself into police. A warrant had been issued for his arrest, and a $25,000 reward had been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for harming the puppy.
DFW Rescue Me came to the rescue of the little four-month-old puppy. They named him "Justice", since that is what they hoped he would get. He was rushed to an emergency clinic for treatment, however Justice sustained third degree burns on more than 70 percent of his body, and his poor little body could not handle it. Justice died 10 days after Ewing allegedly poured lighter fluid on the Labrador puppy, then flicked a lit cigarette at him.
The police report states that when they arrived at the scene, the badly burned puppy was hiding. It also states that a group of people were present and laughed as Ewing threw his lit cigarette at Justice. The group also had a rope, so possibly intended on hanging the little puppy as well. Police are still looking for the other suspects.
Ewing was arrested and charged with animal cruelty, a State Jail Felony in Texas. State Jail Felonies are punishable with a fine of up to $10,000 and/or a jail sentence of up to 10 years.
This petition respectfully requests that if found guilty, Darius Ewing receives the maximum sentence allowable under law for animal cruelty. Please speak out against animal cruelty and help get justice for Justice by adding your signature to this petition.
See more pictures of Justice and read more about his story on DFW Rescue Me's Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/DFWRescueMe
For more information on this story: http://www.examiner.com/article/breaking-news-man-that-set-dog-on-fire-dallas-texas-turns-himself-in?CID=examiner_alerts_article
Read more about the candlelight vigil here: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/04/21/suspect-in-justice-the-dogs-case-arrested/
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Today marks the 92nd anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment – a victory that finally gave women full voting rights. Almost a century later, it's an opportunity to celebrate women's voice in politics and policy and to take a good look at the work that remains to be done on the path to equality.
As we reported on Friday, the preliminary findings of the 2012 Status of Women in North Carolina report released last week by the North Carolina Council for Women show that despite women's higher levels of education and the significant increase in labor force participation over the past decades, wage and income inequality persists.
- The wage gap continues: Women's wages continue to be lower than men's wages in the state, adding up to approximately $7,000 per year or $135 per week less than the median annual earnings of comparable men.
- The wage gap is even greater compared by educational level: For instance, women with at least a college degree earn more than $20,000 less per year than comparable men. This amounts to a wage gap of 29 percent.
- More women continue to live in poverty. 17 percent of women compared to 13 percent of men in North Carolina lived in families with incomes at or below the federal poverty threshold. 34 percent of Hispanic women, 25 percent of African American women, and 25 percent of American Indian women in North Carolina lived at or below the poverty line.
Our labor force looks much different than it did 50 years ago. 2.3 million women are in North Carolina's labor force, and 42 percent of working mothers are the family's breadwinner. Close to 7 out of ten families with children under 18 have all parents in the workforce, and 59 percent of women with children under the age of five work. Yet, discrimination persists and workplace policies don't reflect the reality of our workforce.
Affordable, quality child care is essential for working parents, but for many, the cost is out of reach. Moreover, almost half of North Carolina's private sector workers don't have access to paid sick days to address their own health, and even fewer can take time off to care for their sick children. Only one in ten workers in our state has access to extended paid leave when welcoming a new child or when illness strikes. These are hardly "perks." They are policies that allow workers to hang on to their jobs in an uncertain economy and to work toward economic security.
Today, in honor of Women's Equality Day, in almost 20 states and cities across the country (including Asheville), 9 to 5's Day of Action focused on the great need for paid sick days. And there are campaigns for better work-family policies all over the country, including here in North Carolina. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving forward.


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HighTower says it is the first U.S. wealth management firm to offer advisors access to the Mercer Advisor Portal.
The Chicago-based company, which is owned by its advisors, said early Monday that the portal means advisors and their clients will now benefit from institutional manager research methodology.
"The financial crisis highlighted the critical need for an evolution in investment selection and portfolio construction, and the Mercer Advisor Portal [or MAP] offers advisors an innovative alternative to traditional portfolio modeling approaches that rely primarily on quantitative analysis," said Matthias Paul Kuhlmey, partner, managing director and head of Global Investment Solutions at HighTower, in a press release.
"Mercer's dedication to creating tools that improve advisor performance aligns perfectly with HighTower's commitment to deliver innovation to its advisor partners through sophisticated investment selections, technology and research," Kuhlmey said.
According to HighTower, MAP combines historical performance analysis and forward-looking research provided by Mercer's 100-plus researchers worldwide, who monitor more than 25,000 investment strategies. Mercer says it developed MAP as part of the ongoing growth of its wealth management consulting and solutions work last year.
"HighTower's adoption of our platform enables them to provide their advisors with unique qualitative and forward-looking tools to choose best-in-breed investment managers and deliver on their commitment to clients," said Cara Williams, senior partner and global head of wealth management and technology solutions at Mercer, in a statement. "Clients will benefit tremendously from their HighTower advisors having access to Mercer's unparalleled institutional-grade research, which will help them make more informed decisions to achieve their financial goals."
HighTower recently expanded its partnership development team. It hired Thomas Brown as an executive director and East Coast relationship manager and Frank Epinger as an executive director and relationship manager for the West Coast and Midwest. They are based in New York and Los Angeles, respectively, and report to Michael Parker, national director of HighTower partnership.
In late March, HighTower said MK Wealth Management, an advisory team on Long Island, joined its partnership, representing the 10th time in the past 12 months that a new team has joined the firm. This represented the 37th team moving to HighTower since its 2007 inception. It now includes 33 teams, with client assets totaling a reported $25 billion.
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Vegan Express Recipes (by Nava Atlas)
I'm really enjoying this Vegan Express cookbook by Nava Atlas. I've made several recipes, and most have been quite tasty. I really like that Nava includes loads of menu suggestions; it makes it really easy to pull together full meals with entrees, sides, and salads. One thing worth mentioning is that Nava's books are geared more toward family recipes; if you prefer more spice/salt, just add it. I'd love to hear what all everyone here has made from this cookbook.
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cake--awesome, easy, and delicous! If you love peanut butter and chocolate, you'll love this. One layer cakes are perfect for my small household.
Our Favorite Chocolate Cake--super tasty! I love that this makes only a 1 layer 9" cake; there are only 2 in my household, and anything more is really too much.
Butterscotch Mousse Pie--I thought I would love this, but for whatever reason I didn't. I'll probably try making it again sometime, using maple syrup rather than brown rice syrup.
Spicy Tofu Triangles on a Cool Bed of Lettuce--easy, quick, and really tasty! I really like the spicy tofu over the cool lettuce with dill dressing; it makes a great combo.
Singapore-Style Yellow Curry Rice Noodles with Tofu--simple, tasty, and makes a ton! For my taste, I did add additional soy sauce for extra salt.
Creole Coleslaw--I typically love coleslaw, but I didn't like the sweet pickle relish in this one. I do like the addition of the pineapple. Next time, I'd omit the relish.
Cheese Grits with Corn--I love cheezy grits! This recipe's success, in my opinion, is dependent on what cheeze you use. Nutritional yeast sauce in place of the grated vegan cheddar is a tasty option. The mature white cheddar Cheezly would likely be good, as well.
Oooh. I'll look into it! ;)b
I like it, too! I haven't made a ton out of it yet, though.
Tofu Shakshouka - good, sorta like a tofu scramble. Good use of boxed silken tofu.
Szechuan-Style Tofu with Eggplant - really yummy! Tastes like good takeout but much healthier.
Barbecue-Flavored Roasted Tempeh and Vegetables - I wasn't super crazy about this one. The BBQ sauce didn't really penetrate the veggies. Also I don't think the cook time is nearly long enough. I went an extra 10 minutes and the veggies were still pretty firm. I'd probably cook longer next time and maybe marinate the veggies in the BBQ sauce first.
Lemony Couscous with Broccoli - very nice side dish, nice bright lemon flavor.
Lentils with Greens and Sun-Dried Tomatoes - another good side dish, lots of flavor. I actually cooked my lentils from scratch rather than using canned per the recipe.
White Pizza with Sweet Potato and Caramelized Onions - I really wanted to love this pizza. I was totally psyched up to make it. Unfortunately, it just didn't wow me. I think the white sauce is kind of weird tasting. I also subbed eggplant for the mushroom - maybe that was part of why I didn't like it??
Roasted Summer Vegetable Platter - good, basic recipe.
Middle Eastern Chopped Salad - another good, basic recipe
Recipe Not Required Salad - artichoke hearts, corn, cherry tomatoes, toasted pumpkin seeds - YUM!
All in all, I like the book. It's good when you want a quick meal. I also like the serving suggestions, they are very helpful!
I made Curried Chickpeas with Chutney Bulgur last night. It sounded great and it took 15 minutes from start to finish. However, the chutney bulgur calls for an entire jar of mango chutney. The one I used (Trader Joe's mango-ginger) was SOOOOO HOT that the dish was just overwhelmingly hot. I couldn't really taste anything but hot. However, I really do think this is just a matter of preference. Next time, I'll try it with maybe half a jar of chutney and half a jar of apricot jam.
Last night, I made the Spinach, Artichoke, and Chickpea Salad. I used mixed baby greens instead of spinach, which is a recommended substitution in the recipe itself. This was good - simple, easy to throw together, healthy, filling. I've made something similar to this before, but this has a couple of unique additions, such as halved baby carrots and sliced red cabbage. I liked it and will definitely make it again.
A couple of nights ago, I made the Quinoa and Red Bean Salad with Crisp Veggies. This was fine but I don't know that I'd make it again. The salad flavors didn't really meld together for me all that much. I had leftovers and was able to try it again the next day, but I didn't see a big change in the flavor. Still, it was a healthy main dish salad so that's always a plus. I served it with some baked sweet potatoes drizzled with sunflower seed butter, and that was super yummy! ;D
Orzo Soup with Roasted Vegetables
Pretty good. Orzo in soup is yummy.
Miso Soup with Sweet Potatoes and Watercress
Hands down, my favorite soup in this book. The pairing of watercress and sweet potatoes is delicious. I usually use extra firm tofu and depending on how hearty I want it will add up to a pound.
Pink Bean, Quinoa, and Spinach Soup
Found the pink beans in my local Mexican market, but will probably just use pintos in the future. Delicious! The quinoa gives it an interesting texture and it's good both warm and room temperature. Another favorite.
Thai Tofu with Pineapple and Veggies
Simple and yummy. Substituted corn kernels for the baby corn.
Tempeh, Kale, and Sweet Potato Skillet
Delicious! Cooking the cashews softens them up a little. I used sambal oelek which was just great with the tempeh and sweet potatoes.
Tempeh and Green Beans with Shiitake-Miso Gravy
Good, easy comfort food.
Gingery Rice with Sweet Potatoes and Peas
Yum. A little dry, but good.
Quinoa with Corn and Scallions
Good, but would probably add a little more cumin in the future.
Quinoa with Cauliflower, Cranberries, and Pine Nuts
I remember liking this, but I don't usually have pine nuts or dried cranberries on hand.
Miso-Ginger Red Beans with Broccoli
Good, but I barely remember it. Unique in that it's an adzuki-based entree that doesn't have squash in it.
Lentils with Greens and Sun-Dried Tomatoes
I really wanted to like this, but something about this was off. Oddly bitter. May make again.
Pineapple Coconut Noodles
Easy and yummy.
Pasta Jambalaya
Okay, but not much to write home about.
Soba Noodles with Green Beans and Almonds
Not really fair to dislike it because I was looking for a mushroomy flavor, but I'll give this another try.
Creamy Pasta with Asparagus and Peas
The creamy flavor fell right off the veggies, but was retained a little in the rotini. Next time I'll try thickening some creamer separately to pour on top.
Pasta Puttanesca
Great for skeptical relatives.
White Pizza with Sweet Potato and Caramelized Onions
Yummy! Yes, I do think the mushrooms make a difference.
White Pizza with Asparagus and Spinach
Honestly, there are better uses for asparagus, where it won't roll off of what you're eating. Tasted pretty good, but inconvenient.
Big Quesadillas with Refried Beans, Spinach, and Avocado
Super easy and makes for a satisfying after-class snack.
Great Grated Veggies with Tahini Dressing
Great way to use up broccoli stems.
Creole Coleslaw
Sweet and White Potato Salad with Mixed Greens
Delicious, uncomplicated summer dish.
Chickpea and Carrot Salad with Parsley and Olives
Fun side with a good combination of flavors and textures.
Spicy Sesame Broccoli
Really simple and nicely spicy.
The only dessert I've made so far is the Dense and Fruity Banana Bread. Even my banana-hesitant fiancé loves this.
Tonight I made the Valencian Rice and Red Beans. This was a winner! It might be my favorite from the book so far. The rice and beans were so creamy and delicious. All of the ingredients (tomatoes, sliced green olives, scallions, chopped parsley) really melded together. The only thing I found lacking was the salt - it says to add salt to taste, so don't by shy with it! This was great, and I'll definitely make it again. I served it with some frozen broccoli spears for a simple but yummy dinner.
I made the Polenta with Black Beans and Spinach. It was a little dry, but very tasty! Great combination of flavors and textures. ;)b
Pad Thai
Weeknight supper, straightforward and fairly tasty. Subtle flavoring, almost bland. I used curly Chinese lo-mein style noodles. Definitely add the peanuts and cilantro--the peanuts really make the dish.
I served it with some simple pan-fried tofu. I thought it would be a hit with my kids and was surprised at how all of them firmly rejected this dish. Usually at least one of them will like/eat what I've made. Actually, my daughter who hates vegetables offered to pick out the broccoli and eat that, but otherwise they wouldn't have anything to do with it. While I thought it was a good weeknight supper dish, I didn't love it enough to make it over their objections again and force them to eat it. So I probably won't be making this again.
Our favorite chocolate cake--I thought it wouldn't be chocolatey enough so I sprinkled a handful of chocolate chips on the top of the batter before baking. I have got to stop doing this. The ganache-type frosting is very rich and the extra chips in the cake were too much. I used almond milk and cashew butter in the frosting.
My only complaint about the recipe was that it calls for 3/4 cup each of whole wheat pastry and white flour. That is such a pain to measure. I thought that I could taste the whole wheat pastry flour in the batter and the final product, but my mother said she had no clue it was a healthy cake since it was so rich. My kids scarfed down their pieces. I will make this again but without the extra chips.
Last night I made the Pink Bean, Quinoa, and Spinach Soup. My husband liked it, my kids hated it and I thought it was mediocre. It was easy enough, but the flavor was thin and the soup needed more backbone overall. You just can't add a spoonful of curry powder to a watery broth and call it a day. To be fair, I did not add the onions and no doubt they would have boosted the flavor. I thought the idea of the soup was good and it was quite nutritious--I might make this again and change all the seasonings.
Pad Thai
This was gross.
Tempeh, Kale, and Sweet Potato Skillet
Made this tonight with a large head of kale from the farmers'market. Discovered at the last minute my tempeh was way out of date, so I subbed baked tofu and that worked well. The recipe doesn't say when to add the sweet potatoes so I added towards the end since mine overcooked a little and were quite soft. I used just the curry powder and not the optional paste so the curry flavor was barely noticeable. Somewhere after mixing together the kale and tomatoes, I decided I didn't like the look of the whole enterprise and I added about 2/3 can of light coconut milk towards the end. Served it over whole wheat pasta. My husband and I liked it. My kids didn't love it but they ate it so I might make this again.
Way late to the party but miso and sweet potato soup.I adore it except i sub spinach for watercress and add a little tofu fried in earth balance.Amazing!


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It's two weeks since I went to FOSDEM and I promised to write an article about what happened there. Better do that before I forget everything.
Some time ago, Gabor applied for a Perl stand at this year's FOSDEM. The idea was that we could go along and promote Perl to people who are part of the Open Source community but not part of the Perl community.
When I first arrived at the venue, it took me some time to find the Perl stand. This was largely because I was searching in the wrong building. I forgot that FOSDEM is spread over several buildings at the ULB. I had assumed that we'd be in the main building, but we were actually in another building along with most of the stands.
The Perl Foundation had paid for some stuff for us to give away from the stand. We had some postcards listing Perl events in Europe this year and some round tuits. There were also a few other leaflets promoting particular Perl events.
I think it was unusual for a programming language to have a stand at the conference. Plenty of other projects had stands, but I didn't see any other languages. A lot of the other stands were promoting projects that they were able to demonstrate. I think it's hard to demonstrate a programming language in a situation like that.
We got a lot of people passing by the stand and many of them stopped to talk. The round tuits attracted the most attention, but it was sometimes hard to explain the joke to people whose first language wasn't English. There were at least a couple of times when I just gave up trying.
On Saturday afternoon, Juerd arrived. He brought a projector with him and we set that up projecting a hastily assembled slideshow on the wall opposite us. That also drew a lot of attention to the stand. In the future I think it's a good idea to plan something like that in advance.
Just about everyone who we talked to knew about Perl. And most of them had used it at some point. Most of the people I spoke to were still using it to some extent. But very few of them knew about the "Modern Perl" projects that we were promoting (Catalyst, Moose, DBIx::Class, etc) or the huge number of Perl events that take place i Europe every year. I think we got some of them interesting in Modern Perl and I'm hoping that we'll see a few new faces at various Perl events this summer. I promised to buy a drink for some of them if they come along to YAPC::Europe. If they all take me up on it, it might get a bit expensive.
Our presence at the conference was all very experimental. We know that this is something that we want to do more of, but we're just working out the most effective approaches to take. But I think that we can count this attempt as a success and take the lessons learned forward to other non-Perl conferences. The next one on the list is CeBIT.
Other people have also written about this event: Gabor, Claudio, Erik, Salve.


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The probability integral (error function) has a long history beginning with the articles of A. de Moivre (1718–1733) and P.‐S. Laplace (1774) where it was expressed through the following integral:
Later C. Kramp (1799) used this integral for the definition of the complementary error function . P.‐S. Laplace (1812) derived an asymptotic expansion of the error function.
The probability integrals were so named because they are widely applied in the theory of probability, in both normal and limit distributions.
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When you get a big basket of peaches as beautiful as this, it's time to cook. We got these in South Carolina a few weeks ago while visiting family, and they were so fresh and sweet that the smell made me want to bury my face in the basket. They still needed a couple days to fully ripen, but when they did the juiciness and flavor immediately made me think of peach butter and peach cobbler. It also made we want to go out and "take care" of the squirrels that ate all of our peaches this year.
I've been making small batch preserves this year, which is handy since our freezer is bursting at the seams. Peach butter is so simple and I actually prefer it over peach jam. The texture is reminiscent of apple butter and it only needed a small amount of sugar because these peaches were so sweet on their own. Taste the peaches you use before making the butter and adjust the sugar to your preference. I like to spice these up a bit with cinnamon and nutmeg and dream of breakfast while peach butter simmers away on the stove on a hot summer day.
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3. Return the pureed peaches to the pan and add the sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer uncovered until the mixture is thick, about 25 minutes, stirring frequently.
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The Revo Lution Theatre Company's Staged Reading Series will present Kevin Wiczer's Deranged Inhabitants tomorrow night at the Burton Place Bar and Grill at 1447 N. Wells Street in Chicago. Steve Carter Ruppel directs cast members Jonatham Coffin, Erin Heidt Makowski, Jeff Botelhos, Iena Arkelious, and Kevin Higginbotham in this tale of a man who lives within the walls of his home until an Avon Lady comes calling. The show starts at 6:00 PM.
Sci-fi rockers Tomorrow The Moon, featuring Bad Examples guitarist Steve Gerlach, are among the four bands performing next Thursday, January 30th at The Beat Kitchen on Chicago's north side. Check out this artful and eye-popping video for "He Saw Red." Frosting, who like Tomorrow The Moon have had two CDs favorably reviewed here on BHT, are also on the bill, along with The Dead Woods and Katasstrofist. The music starts at 8:00 PM.
Singer-guitarist Jeff Lescher from the critically acclaimed power pop band Green is inviting about 40 fans to join him in his living room for a solo show in early February. Lescher lives in Milwaukee.
Take A Walk On The Charitable Side. The Empty Bottle in Chicago will be the scene of Perfect Day, a Lou Reed tribute show to benefit Lurie's Children's Hospital, on Sunday, March 2nd. The participating bands are Supercell Mothership, Energy Gown, Phil Angotti And Friends, The Red Plastic Buddha, Tangleweed, Puritan Pine, Time Flower, and The Luck Of Eden Hall. Tickets are $10, and the tribute kicks off at 7:00 PM.
And in other Luck Of Eden Hall news: Butterfly Revolutions Volume 1 and 2, both of which did well on the Broken Hearted Toy 2011 and 2012 Favorite Releases lists respectively, are now available as a double LP on 180 gram colored vinyl. If you've heard this band's authentic take on 1960s mind-bending psychedelic rock, you'll agree it makes sense to create a Butterfly Revolutions Volume 1 and 2 vinyl set. It can be ordered at Norman Records, Clear Spot and other sites.
Fruits de Mer, the U.K. all-vinyl indie label that released the fantastic Hollies tribute album, Re-Evolution, made an intriguing announcement on Facebook recently. It's considering an American multi-act tour called Crabstock USA The Fruits de Mer Records Festival of Psychedelia. Hopefully, more details will be released soon.
As a collector of pop culture memorabilia, I've often wondered why female action figures are rendered far less realistically than their male counterparts. A recent post on the Doctor Who Facebook page displaying a new line of figures from the sci-fi series, revealed I'm not the only one who feels this way. The funniest comments regarded the Clara Oswald figure, which in no way resembles Jenna Coleman, the enchanting actress who portrays her. "Those are some of the worst figures I have ever seen," read one comment. Here are a few other observations: "Clara looks like a potato." "Wow, they managed to make Clara ugly." "Uh, why does the Clara figurine have MOFFAT'S FACE?" Writer/producer Steven Moffat occasionally gets flack for the changes he's brought to Doctor Who, but I don't think he's responsible for these action figures.


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For his contribution to the ongoing online digital painting exhibition "Brushes," presented by Rhizome and the New Museum as part of the First Look series, artist Jacob Ciocci presents a series of gifs from his New Expressions series. The gifs are viewable on the front page of rhizome.org through Oct 4 and permanently on the online exhibition page.
The gifs are made by printing material from the internet, gluing, collaging and painting it, scanning the result back into the computer, animating it digitally, and repeating. He has applied this practice to works that are shown onscreen, such as these GIFs, while also creating objects for gallery display, some of which incorporate video projection into the work.


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Kendrick Lamar's highly-praised addition to Big Sean's "Control" may go down as a verse that sparked more of a social media war than a lyrical one. A number of Hip Hop veterans including Big Daddy Kane and Virginia rapper Skillz expressed their disbelief with rappers turning to Twitter rather than the studio upon hearing Kendrick's "Control" verse. And Maybach Music Group spitter Meek Mill has become the latest artist to question why there was such a delay when it concerned artist's responses to "Control."
During an interview with Jay Z's Life + Times, Meek Mill revealed that there's no need to wait for an album to drop or meticulously plan out a response when an artist is called out on a record.
"Where I come from, somebody say ya name in a rap you get back at 'em," Meek explained. "Like you don't wait til ya album come out. You don't try to do no chess moves bullshit, no. If you rap, you get back at 'em. And I don't know what's taking other niggas [so] long to get back at 'em. These niggas be soft though…Nas say 'Jay Z.' Jay Z come at Nas. Kiss say 'Beans.' Beans come at him. Niggas go to the radio station and rap. I don't know about all this new shit that's going on."
Meek went on to again express his "respect" for Kendrick Lamar, but didn't seem as amiable when speaking on Cassidy, an artist he's traded diss records with for quite some time. The Dreams And Nightmares rapper seemed particularly vexed when asked about Cassidy referencing the late Addarren "Lil Snupe" Ross on "Catch A Body."
On "Catch A Body," Cassidy raps, "I ain't broke chill, man I'm still worth a few mill/You remind me of Sisqo from Dru Hill/Fuck how you feel, you got Lil Snupe killed/And you only ride out on two wheels." Lil Snupe was killed just months ago in Winnfield, Louisiana; he signed to Meek Mill's Dream Chasers Records last year.
"I be going back and forth with Cassidy. I just do it cause I like that shit. I don't earn nothing from coming at no Cassidy. I'm just having fun…I don't gotta drop a diss rap to keep you popping. No, let's let you die down. You know what I mean? Matter of fact, wake up, 'I feel like coming at him today'…Yeah, that's some bitch ass shit," said Meek when asked about the Lil Snupe reference on "Catch A Body." "You a bitch ass nigga. Don't be talking about nobody that's dead cause when you see me you ain't gonna talk like that. So, why talk like that on a track? That's disrespectful. Say if I see you one of my homies disrespect you. I ain't gonna be able to hold nobody back. I ain't holding nobody back. You sitting here talking about a dead man. I ain't got nothing to do with it.
Meek recently released diss records aimed at both Kendrick Lamar and Cassidy with "Ooh Kill Em" and "Kendrick You Next." Cassidy's "Catch A Body" served as the Philly rapper's response to Meek's "Kendrick You Next."
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Part of going green with your RVs includes encouraging RV parks to support sustainable camping. The definition of sustainable, as defined by the UN Commission on Environment and Development is "…development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs."
Put another way, it means that we need to be aware that we are caretakers of our environment for our children, and grandchildren. What should you look for in a sustainable campground?
Leave the land as undisturbed as possible
When building a campground, the ultimate goal should be to maintain and support the natural environment.
o There should be a sense of seclusion for each hookup with greenery providing privacy screening.
o Walkways should be wooden boardwalks above the ground level to avoid disturbing the eco-system as little as possible.
o Ideally, waste from the toilets, and gray water from showers should be used to nourish the plants.
o Any buildings on the campground should be prefabricated, and heavy equipment activity kept to a minimum.
Information should be readily available on the campsites blog or website.
Conscientious use of energy and resources
Look for energy efficient electric lights and appliances – and use them in your own motorhome.
o Do you see any labor saving devices being used that conserve energy?
o Do they use solar paneling as a power source?
o Have you begun using solar paneling instead of a generator in your toy hauler?
o Check for the quality of air indoors, and for signs of water conservation such as showerheads that help reduce water use.
o How pure is the water?
o Does the campground recycle organic matter into compost to be used in the plantings, and reusable containers?
Cultural and local preservation – an important part of being green when looking into different industries such as local professions, trades, retail and digital marketing in Santa Rosa.
On a green campground, safety for wildlife and people will be visibly important. Respect for both the earth, and the people who live in the area will be evident.
o Does the campground store demonstrate that they encourage the local economy?
o Fresh produce and other food should be purchased as locally as possible to be cooked while fresh in your Class C motorhome.
The more aware you are of what it means to support sustainable campgrounds and camping, the more things you will find to incorporate into your own camping routines. Being "green" is no longer a fad. It's a way of life for many people who have discovered how much richer it makes them feel.


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The head of the U.S. Census Bureau says the controversy over a new question about U.S. citizenship on the 2020 census is complicating its preparations to conduct a national head count.
For the first time since 1950, the Census Bureau will ask all U.S. households about citizenship status, specifically, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?"
"Controversy about the content of the census does complicate our messaging," acting U.S. Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin says in an exclusive interview with NPR. Jarmin is overseeing the 2020 census, the once-in-a-decade head count of every person living in the U.S. as required by the Constitution.
"We need to get responses from everybody whether they like the question or they don't like the question," says Jarmin, an economist who has served at the bureau since 1992. "We need to be able to get both sides of this debate to respond to the census."
The interview is Jarmin's first with a news organization since stepping in last July to lead the bureau, and it comes as preparations for the next national tally in 2020 are already drawing criticism over security and privacy concerns as well as legal action over the citizenship question.
The bureau is facing six lawsuits from more than two dozen states and cities, plus other groups and individuals, who want the question removed because of fears that it will discourage noncitizens from participating and harm the accuracy of the census. As NPR has reported, some noncitizens plan to avoid answering the 2020 census because they are scared of sharing their information with the government.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved adding the question to census forms in March. Ross has said the Justice Department needs responses from the question to better enforce the Voting Rights Act's provisions against racial discrimination. Internal documents the Trump administration recently released as part of the lawsuits are fueling suspicions that the decision to add the question was politically motivated.
Jarmin says the lawsuits are creating "uncertainty" for his bureau and that the longer they persist, they increase "potential cost and risk to the program."
Still, Jarmin insists, he is "confident" the bureau can get a "good, complete and accurate census" regardless of the outcome of the lawsuits.
These population counts touch the lives of people across the country. Census numbers help determine the balance of political power — they are used to determine how many seats in Congress and how many Electoral College votes each state gets, and they affect how legislative districts are drawn. In financial terms, an estimated $800 billion in federal funds is distributed every year based on the head count.
Asked how he would respond to people who say they're afraid of taking part in the head count, Jarmin defended the security of the census, saying the bureau always has a need to "encourage people to participate in the census regardless of the content of the form."
"Responding to the census is safe and secure, and we only use the data for statistical purposes," he says, "so fears that we're going to use the data and to give it to law enforcement agencies and things like that are unfounded. We do not do that."
"Confidentiality is [an] absolutely critical element of the success of our mission and so we take that very seriously," he says.
Federal law prohibits the Census Bureau from releasing any information that would identify individuals. But the bureau can release anonymized information about specific demographic groups living in specific neighborhood
Still, some critics of the citizenship question — including Terri Ann Lowenthal, a former staff director of the House Subcommittee on Census and Population — are worried about whether people will trust the government with their personal information at a time of increased immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.
"Regrettably, I think because of the anti-immigrant debate and rhetoric ... more and more people are going to be afraid to turn personal information, especially if it's about citizenship, over to a government agency," she says. "Even if that agency is simply collecting statistics."
Lowenthal is now a consultant and advises the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which has filed an amicus brief for one of the citizenship question lawsuits. She says it is ultimately up to elected officials, local religious leaders and social service agency heads to "carry the message that it's both safe and important to their families and the well-being of their communities to participate in the census."
To conduct past head counts, the bureau has received permission to hire noncitizens as temporary census workers for their special language and cultural skills. The Washington Post reported in January that Census Bureau staff were told during a meeting that the agency was not planning to hire noncitizens for 2020.
But Jarmin says that some staffers may have "misinterpreted" an explanation about federal hiring laws and that the bureau is "going to be exploring every option."
"We need to get a complete and accurate census," he says, "and we will do everything we can to ensure that."
The bureau's preparations for 2020 include keeping a close eye on social media to monitor any misinformation about the head count, which is set to take place at the same time as the 2020 presidential race.
Asked if he was worried that there could be a tweet from President Trump that does not match the bureau's messaging about the 2020 census, Jarmin says, "I'm not too concerned about a tweet from the president in that regard. But I'm concerned about tweets from anybody that somehow, you know, if it gets enough traction, that that is giving the public bad information about the census."
Amid all the uncertainty, another question facing Jarmin is how long he will stay as the Census Bureau's acting director. During a Senate hearing in May, the commerce secretary said the White House was "processing" a potential successor but did not announce a name.
Jarmin says he doesn't know who that person is or when he might be replaced.
The head of the U.S. Census Bureau is preparing to face a major challenge. His agency is required by law to count every person living in the U.S. in 2020. But the bureau is running into many hurdles, including a legal fight over a new citizenship question. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang sat down with the bureau's acting director for his first news interview since stepping into the role a year ago.
HANSI LO WANG, BYLINE: Ron Jarmin leads more than 4,000 employees from the Census Bureau's sprawling headquarters. But these days, he's focusing more on the millions of people outside the bureau's glass walls, all the people the Constitution says the government must tally up every 10 years.
RON JARMIN: Who is supposed to be counted? All residents are supposed to be counted.
WANG: And when you say all residents, does citizenship status matter? Does immigration status matter?
JARMIN: It does not.
WANG: It's a responsibility, Jarmin says, that the bureau takes seriously because the power of these numbers last for a decade.
JARMIN: Whether it's funding for streets or for schools or for health care, decisions throughout the federal government are made based on the population of the local communities that people live in.
WANG: Not to mention how many seats in Congress and Electoral College votes each state gets and how legislative districts are drawn. And there's been growing concern that the 2020 count will not be accurate. More than two dozen states and cities are pointing to a new question asking whether a person is a citizen of the U.S. That has led to so far six lawsuits filed against the bureau.
JARMIN: Controversy about the content of the census does complicate our messaging. We need to get responses from everybody whether they like the question or they don't like the question.
WANG: The citizenship question was added by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the bureau. Ross has said the Justice Department needs responses from it to better enforce the Voting Rights Act. But Jarmin and other researchers at the Census Bureau warned Ross that adding a question could discourage noncitizens, and that could put the accuracy of the next head count in jeopardy. While the federal courts sort out the question's fate, Jarmin says his agency is moving forward with plans to ask about citizenship status in 2020.
JARMIN: The longer we go without knowing exactly what's going to be on there, that could be a risk.
WANG: The risk of giving personal information to the government is weighing on the minds of many noncitizens at a time of increased immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.
JARMIN: We want to make sure that people know that it's safe and secure to answer the census and that it's important that they answer the census.
WANG: Federal law prohibits the Census Bureau from releasing any information that would identify individuals, but the bureau can release anonymized information about specific demographic groups living in specific neighborhoods. And that, says Terri Ann Lowenthal, a former staff director of the House Oversight Subcommittee for the census, does raise concerns about trusting the government to not use that information against people.
TERRI ANN LOWENTHAL: The Census Bureau can tell people till it's blue in the face that the law provides the strictest protection for the confidentiality of census information. But people are only going to be convinced if community leaders carry the message.
WANG: Ron Jarmin says he's hoping more local leaders step up in time to rally interest in the upcoming census and to share accurate information about the head count that's taking place at the same time as the 2020 presidential race. Jarmin says the bureau is planning to keep a close eye on social media.
Are you worried that there could be a tweet from President Trump that doesn't match the bureau's messaging about the 2020 census?
JARMIN: I'm not too concerned about a tweet from the president in that regards, but I'm concerned about tweets from anybody that somehow, if it gets enough traction - that is giving the public bad information about the census.
JARMIN: Amidst all this uncertainty with the 2020 census, there's another question. Ron Jarmin is the acting director of the Census Bureau. And he says there's no word from the White House about when he might be replaced. Hansi Lo Wang, NPR News, Washington.
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Scientists at Georgia Tech say that they have developed a new self-charging power cell technology that directly converts mechanical energy to chemical energy. Then, the power is stored until it is needed to generate electricity. This hybrid generator- storage cell utilizes mechanical energy more efficiently than systems using separate generators and batteries, they say.
At the heart of the self-charging power cell is a piezoelectric membrane that drives lithium ions from one side of the cell to the other when the membrane is deformed by mechanical stress. The lithium ions driven through the polarized membrane by the piezoelectric potential are directly stored as chemical energy using an electrochemical process.
By harnessing a compressive force, such as a pedestrian's shoe hitting the floor when walking, the hybrid power cell generates enough current to power small electronic devices, such as a calculator, or someday, such medtech applications as miniature implantable devices and handhelds.
"People are accustomed to considering electrical generation and storage as two separate operations done in two separate units," said Zhong Lin Wang, a Regents professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. "We have put them together in a single hybrid unit to create a self-charging power cell, demonstrating a new technique for charge conversion and storage in one integrated unit." (See Figure 1)
The power cell consists of a cathode made from lithium-cobalt oxide (LiCoO2) and an anode consisting of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanotubes grown atop a titanium film. The two electrodes are separated by a membrane made from poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) film, which generates a piezoelectric charge when placed under strain. When the power cell is mechanically compressed, the PVDF film generates a piezoelectric potential that serves as a charge pump to drive the lithium ions from the cathode side to the anode side. The energy is then stored in the anode as lithium-titanium oxide.
Charging occurs in cycles with the compression of the power cell creating a piezopotential that drives the migration of lithium ions until the chemical equilibrium of the two electrodes are re-established and the distribution of lithium ions can balance the piezoelectric fields within the PVDF film. When the applied force is released, the piezoelectric field in the film disappears, and the lithium ions are kept at the anode by a chemical process.
The research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.


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There are many who go around blaspheming much worse and nothing happens to them. The reason I've heard is that God does not interfere and manipulate. He lets things run their course and has set aside a day for judgement.
Acts 12:23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Then why did God strike Herod immediately? Why didn't he wait to judge him on judgement day like he does for others? Herod's sin seems trivial compared to what you can see at the 9 o'clock news.


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Mini Waffle Turkey Slider with Avocado and Arugula
By Chef Carlos Gomez, Executive Chef of Grille 700
Serving size: 4
Waffle Batter
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 T. white sugar
4 t. baking powder
1/4 t. salt
1/2 t. vanilla extract
*Batter can be made ahead and refrigerated
Turkey Sliders
2 lbs. Ground Turkey
2 oz Onion lightly Sautéed
3 T. Fresh Parsley
1 oz Maple Syrup
1 oz EVOO
Salt and Pepper, to taste
Roasted Garlic Aioli
12 garlic cloves, peeled
1 T. vegetable oil
1 T. fresh lemon juice
1 t. Worcestershire sauce
1 cup mayonnaise
Salt and pepper, to taste
Avocado Relish
1 Hass Avocado, diced
1 TBS Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
2 TBS Olive Oil
1 hand full Baby Arugula
2 tsp. Aioli
1. Preheat oven to 300F and waffle iron.
2. Place 12 garlic cloves and 1 TBS vegetable oil in small baking dish, toss to coat. Bake in oven until garlic is soft and golden, about 30 minutes. Let cool to room temperature.
3. Prepare waffle batter. Beat 2 eggs in large bowl with hand beater, until fluffy. Add remaining waffle batter ingredients, beating just until smooth. Spray preheated waffle iron with nonstick cooking spray.
4. Pour mix onto hot waffle iron and cook until golden brown, about 2 ½ minutes. Set aside and keep warm.
5. While waffles are cooking, mix together turkey slider ingredients. Divide into 4 patties.
6. Sear or grill the sliders on medium for about 4 minutes on each side.
7. While sliders are cooking, place garlic mixture, lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce in blender and process until smooth. Add in mayonnaise and salt and pepper to taste and process again, until smooth.
8. Make avocado relish. In a small bowl, toss 1 avocado, 1 TBS lemon juice, 2 TBS olive oil, a handful of baby arugula and salt and pepper. Set aside.
9. Assemble sliders. Split mini waffle in half and brown both sides in a flat hot pan with a TBS of butter approximately 30 seconds. Transfer to plate. Use waffles as sandwich and assemble, waffle, slider, aioli. Avocado mixture and top with waffle.
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Asus has taken the wraps off what's certainly its first USB 3.0 motherboard and very possibly the first one of its kind at all.
The Xtreme Design P7P55D-E Premium board is based on Intel's P55 chipset, which doesn't support SuperSpeed USB, so Asus has integrated an unnamed third-party USB 3.0 controller which is hooked up to a pair of ports on the back of the board.
Asus' Xtreme Design P7P55D-E Premium: USB 3.0 on board
The board also has a pair of 6Gb/s Sata ports, along with six 3Gb/s ports. It has two PCIe x16 slots for graphics cards - it supports both AMD's CrossFire X and Nvidia's SLI multi-card technologies - and a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports.
The SuperSpeed USB ports are compatible with USB 1.1 and 2.0 devices, but the board has ten USB 2.0 ports too, plus an eSata connector on a bracket.
Asus also announced the U3S6 PCIe x4 expansion card, designed for its P7P55D motherboard to bring USB 3.0 and 6Gb/s Sata to that board. In other respects the P7P55D's specs match those of the P7P55D-E.
The board's launch shows that claims Intel has put back the release of USB 3.0 supporting chipsets - if true - may not matter very much.
There's no word yet on pricing or availability, alas, for either motherboard or add-in card. ®
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Earthquake Turns Water to Gold? New Study Describes Flash Vaporization Theory
Earthquakes can turn water to gold, a new study has claimed. In an feature contained in the March 17 issue of the Nature Geoscience journal, scientists have stated that water in faults vaporizes when earthquakes take place, resulting in a deposition of gold.
The report claims that when an earthquake takes place, many large fractures and faults can be created, with many large faults having many small fractures along them. Researchers have claimed that water often moves into these faults, lubricating them and filling them up.
This water can carry high concentrations of carbon dioxide, silica as well as other elements such as gold - especially at depths of around 6 miles.
Then when an earthquake takes place on those faults, the sudden jolt causes the fractures to suddenly open up much wider, and a huge pressure is suddenly released at the location, causing the water inside the void to vaporize instantly. This process causes the silica (which forms quartz), as well as gold to exit the fluid and it attaches onto nearby surfaces, claims Dion Weatherley, a geophysicist at the University of Queensland in Australia and lead author of the study.
Jamie Wilkinson, a geochemist at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom has commented, "To me, it seems pretty plausible. It's something that people would probably want to model either experimentally or numerically in a bit more detail to see if it would actually work," according to Our Amazing Planet.
"Given that small-magnitude earthquakes are exceptionally frequent in fault systems, this process may be the primary driver for the formation of economic gold deposits," Weatherley has told OurAmazingPlanet.
Weatherley and co-author of the study, Richard Henley, suggest that a similar process could take place under volcanoes.


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Chuck Connell is a software consultant and writer in Bedford, MA. He can be reached at BeautifulSoftware.com.
There is such a thing as good software versus bad software, and there are universal principles that define good software. This is easy to see with a simple thought experiment.
I hand you two disks containing two sets of source code, A and B. I tell you that both samples implement the same feature set, so the programs produced by A and B behave the same for all inputs. The operations performed by the programs are fairly complex, so these are large sets of source code, at least 100,000 lines each. I tell you that A is an example of high-quality software design and implementation, while B is an example of all that can be wrong with software development.
Before you look at the source code, I ask what qualities you expect to find in A versus B. You might answer "modularity" or "non-redundancy" or "no GOTOs". Every experienced programmer has his or her favorite list of software design DOs and DON'Ts. If you have been programming for more than a few months, however, you will not say, "I have no idea. Since I don't know what kind of software this is or what the source languages are, there are no general properties that lead to good software versus bad."
Experienced programmers recognize that good software looks different than bad software. Responsible programmers strive to incorporate the good qualities into their code. But our understanding of software design principles is often implicit. Good programmers seem to do it regularly; bad programmers always seem to miss the boat. We have little explicit knowledge about what the general principles are.
The answers are important. Good design, in any medium, leads to higher quality, so a clear understanding of general software design guidelines would reduce the cost of all software development. We need universal design principles, so what we learn will lead to improvements across all languages and problem domains. In cases where software performs safety-critical functions, the answers impacts human lives.
Despite the importance of software design, we hear little about it from software engineering researchers. We do hear a lot about software methodology -- how to organize teams, manipulate schedules, and do the associated paperwork. Recently, we also hear about the instantiation of design principles, i.e. patterns, both design patterns and the higher-level architectural patterns. But a pattern is not a principle. It is not explanatory. We want to know why a certain pattern is good and the general principles that make it effective. Examples of such principles might be information hiding, non-redundancy, and simplicity.
It is also important to clarify what universal software design principles are not.
- They are not tied to a particular language or style — such as Java, object oriented design, or functional programming. There were good and bad programs written in COBOL and Fortran, long before these newer techniques came about.
- They are not related to how we create software. A team can practice extreme programming, use-case design, open source, or even CMMI Level 5, and still produce lousy software. The qualities we are looking for exist in the structure of the software, regardless of how some humans got the software to that state.
We currently do not have such a general theory of software design. We tackle each project separately, with few guiding principles. We follow the latest trends in software construction, with no explanation for why this fad is better than last year's. The issue of design principles is so important that we should be having heated arguments about it, with strong proposals, harsh criticism, and competing counter-proposals.
I published my take on software design in 2001, and that article has had considerable readership since it appeared. The problem, however, is not that some software teams have failed to worship the brilliant ideas in my essay. The problem is that no one is shouting it down. If my proposal is wrong, as it may be, why is it wrong? What is the evidence for its wrongness? What would be some better ideas? What is the evidence supporting that new theory? As a community, the software engineering world is not actively searching for a universal theory of design. This is a collective failure, since progress in this direction would have dramatic impact on all software projects.


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text: In light of the recent election, and all the changes we may see pushed at us, I wonder how many of us are willing to spend a little hard earned cash and add our names to one of the groups fighting to protect our gun rights? I'll be the first to admit, I let my membership slide in a group well known for sending lots of unwanted mail. I get regular emails from another group that keeps us informed about subjects of interest, but I realized it's been 2 years since I renew membership with them. I'm embarrassed about this, and intend to rectify it. I think I would really like to turn on the news some time soon and hear one of the talking heads say, "Gun rights organizations have seen a dramatic increase in membership since then last election". I'd love to see the worry on his brow as he reports that we refuse to go down with a fight. I don't care who you join or how many, but vote with your membership dollars and make a statement that even the blind followers in DC can't miss.


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Court Rules Against Wis. School District That Held Graduations in Church
An appeals court ruled against a Wisconsin school district over its usage of a church building to hold graduations due to a lack of space in public school facilities.
The full court of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that by holding some graduations at a church full of religious imagery, Elmbrook School District was unlawfully endorsing a religion.
In a statement provided by Elmbrook Schools to The Christian Post, School District Superintendent Mark Hansen expressed disappointment with the decision.
"While we are disappointed with the majority opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, since 2010 the School District of Elmbrook has used its new field house at Brookfield East to accommodate graduation ceremonies for both high schools," said Hansen.
"Our primary focus as a district has always been to spend our time and resources on educating our students."
The Seventh Circuit's seven to three ruling reversed the September 2011 decision in which a three judge panel of the Seventh Circuit ruled two to one in favor of Elmbrook Schools.
Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel David Cortman, who submitted a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Elmbrook, told The Christian Post about the difference between the two rulings.
"Both the original panel and the en banc panel agreed on the law that should be applied, but a majority of the en banc panel disagreed with the application of that law," said Cortman.
"The main difference ended up being the determination whether the mere presence of religious symbols (such as a cross and a bible) was impermissibly endorsing religion or in some manner coercive. The majority held that it crossed the line (no pun intended)."
According to Cortman, ADF and Elmbrook Schools are currently analyzing the decision and will likely attempt to appeal before the Supreme Court.
In 2009, a group of parents sued Elmbrook Schools because two high schools in the district were holding their graduation ceremonies at a local church. The parents were represented in court by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. U.S. District Judge Charles N. Clevert Jr. heard the case and ruled in favor of Elmbrook Schools. From there a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit ruled likewise in 2011.
Alex Luchenitser, associate legal director for Americans United, told The Christian Post that he was "very pleased" with the latest decision.
"No student or parent in the three states covered by the Seventh Circuit (Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois) will ever be forced to enter an intensely religious environment of a faith not their own in order to attend their high school graduation," said Luchenitser.
"Because yesterday's decision is the first decision by a federal court of appeals on this issue, we think it will have a broad impact all across the country, and discourage school districts around the country from holding their graduations in religious environments."
Elmbrook is not the only school system in the country to recently have a decision regarding whether or not public schools could hold graduations in church buildings. In a similar case in Connecticut, the Enfield School District agreed to a settlement with Americans United and the American Civil Liberties Union over their former use of First Cathedral Church for graduation ceremonies. According to the settlement, Enfield agreed to no longer hold graduation ceremonies at First Cathedral.
"Courts around the country are sending school districts a message that it is unconstitutional to hold public school graduations in religious environments," said Luchenitser.
"In 2005, a Florida district court also concluded that it is unconstitutional to hold public school graduations in a church underneath a cross. Thus, with yesterday's decision, a clear trend has emerged in the courts on this issue."
Cortman of ADF disagreed, telling CP that he felt "the area of the law is still in flux and the Supreme Court will have to settle this issue definitively."
"I think this sends a terrible message to future generations that merely having to view a religious symbol that you may disagree with creates a constitutional violation," said Cortman.
"This should be a lesson in accepting differences, or that we may have to view and hear things we may not agree with, but nonetheless 'tolerate' as the price of freedom."


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Informed urgency needed to help improve schools / Joe Nathan's Column
About 250 parents, business community members, legislators, teachers and others gathered to listen, learn and list possible next steps. The two highlights for me were hearing from George Parker and Kati Haycock.
Parker grew up in the rural south. His family members were "share-croppers" – among the poorest of the poor. His father completed fifth grade, his mother completed third.
Parker taught math for 30 years in the Washington, D.C., public schools. He became a teacher in part because "many of my teachers inspired me. They would not let my family's poverty be an excuse."
In 2005 teachers elected him to be their union president. He recalls having "typical teacher union president attitudes. Some things were sacred, including protecting seniority and opposing teacher evaluation tied to student performance."
He began to change after he spoke one day in a third-grade classroom. After he told students that his job was to "make sure you have the best teachers," a little girl hugged him.
As he left the school, Parker thought, "I lied to those children." The union had just spent $10,000 to retain a teacher that "I wouldn't want working with my grandchildren." He reconsidered some of his ideas, and "began to focus on child-based rather than adult-based" decisions.
Working with Michelle Rhee, the district's chancellor (what Minnesotans call "superintendent"), Parker negotiated a new contract that increased teacher pay, included student performance as part of the evaluation and reduced seniority as a criterion when layoffs were needed. While some teachers strongly objected, "more than 80 percent of the teachers voted in favor of the contract."
Parker is clear (and I think right) that the most effective schools have strong principals and well-designed professional development. He points out that the best schools serving students from low-income families have more time with students. He also thinks teachers deserve "a good base pay, with performance measures on top."
Parker's views complement those of Kati Haycock, president of a research and advocacy group, Education Trust. Haycock has many awards for her careful research and use of data to highlight problems and describe outstanding elementary and secondary public schools as well as colleges and universities.
She thinks Americans need to work simultaneously inside and outside schools to help young people. I agree. For Haycock, poverty absolutely is a problem that urgently needs work. She also urges learning from strong early childhood programs and from public schools around the country that are producing excellent results with students from low-income families. Unfortunately, "We are taking the diversity that should be our competitive advantage in the international marketplace and obliterating it," she said. Her data-packed slide show presentation is available for download online.
Another speaker was Michelle Rhee, former D.C. school chancellor, who is one of the nation's most controversial educators. Parker currently works part time with her. Rhee has founded a group called Students First, which recently rated Minnesota's school reform efforts as a D. She was asked why her group rated Minnesota so much lower than some other states when, overall, Minnesota has better results. Rhee responded that she focuses on what states are doing to improve. There's an ongoing, intense debate about Rhee's record in D.C. (See, for example, this article.)
The conference opened with Jeff DeYoung, managing partner of a local firm that provides audit, tax, wealth management and other services. DeYoung praised teachers at Central High School in St. Paul, where his children received what he described as a "fine education." He also feels improvements are needed urgently because "too many of our children's friends didn't finish."
Informed urgency is what Amy Walstien, the Chamber's director of education and workforce development policy, wants. She told me, "Our goal was to introduce the business community to national figures with ideas for commonsense reforms in Minnesota, highlight some great local initiatives and ignite a greater sense of urgency for changes to the education system."
Joe Nathan, formerly a Minnesota public school teacher, administrator and PTA president, directs the Center for School Change. Reactions welcome, please comment below.